4-manifolds: 1-connected
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1 Introduction
Any finitely presentable group may occur as the fundamental group of a simply-connected smooth closed 4-manifold. On the other hand, the class of simply connected (topological or smooth) 4-manifolds still appears to be quite rich, so it appears reasonable to consider the classification of simply connected 4-manifolds in particular.
It appears that the intersection form is the main algebro-topological invariant of simply-connected 4-manifolds.
Technical remark: When we mention the term 4-manifold without the explicit mention of topological or smooth we shall mean the larger class of topological 4-manifolds.
2 Construction and examples
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2.1 First examples
3 Invariants
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4 Classification/Characterization
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5 Further discussion
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6 References
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